Chronicle: 15 March 2019

Cranmore Chronicle 15 March 2019 Editor: Mrs S Connolly

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atilda, the Musical

Dear Parents

We have celebrated Science Week and the children had great fun with some remarkable demonstrations and experiments.

Our ski squads have departed for Italy and we wish them every success in the British Interschool Ski Championship.

Next Thursday we shall be hosting the Nursery Mothers’ Day Celebration and that evening there will be our traditional Spring SoirÊe, a showcase for our talented musicians.

Tickets for the London Irish Rugby extravaganza are going fast so please do make your booking soon if you would like to join us for this special occasion Yours sincerely Michael Connolly

Nursery News

Role play: visiting the doctor’s surgery for a check up

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Making popcorn on our Forest School fire

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Making pancakes

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Pancake races in the garden Enjoying eating our pancakes in the spring sunshine

Juniors

Using tools at Forest School

Form One Book Day characters

Shared reading : Form One & Middle Prep Role play: visiting the doctor’s surgery for a check up

Junior Maths Week

Science Week

Temperature Extremes Science Week in the seniors involved experiments with extreme temperatures. The Sixth Form bravely investigated combustion, using methane bubbles which burn at just under 2000oC. Meanwhile things were a bit cooler in Form 3 Science lessons, where we had fun investigating dry ice sublimation. Dry ice is -78oC, so putting it in boiling water produces fantastic effects!

Seniors Max M in F4 had an exciting time competing for his swimming club, Guildford City, in the National Arena league finals in Cardiff. Max was selected as junior captain before the event with his team finishing third overall. They also won the relay challenge and Max set a personal best time for 50 metres (long course) of 31.33 seconds. Well done, Max!

New Chaplaincy Team Another beautiful glazed plate from our kiln

Cranmore has swept the board with first and second places in the first round of this year’s Rotary Young Writer competition. In the Junior Category, Form 4 pupils Hugo and Cameron were first and runner up respectively while Adrian’s entry was Highly Commended. My thanks go to all those Cranmore pupils who entered. The results of the District Round are due to be announced at the end of March.

Mr Chapman

Cricket helmets Exclusive Cranmore helmets are now available to order from the School Shop. Customised with the Cranmore badge the new helmets comply with the latest British safety standards and are excellent value.

Please visit the School Shop to view, try for size and then order before the end of this term.

Sports Focus The fantastic hockey season has continued over the last week with matches taking place across all year groups.

The pick of the bunch was the whole year group U9 matches against Danes Hill and the four U10 sides versus Parkside. The outstanding hockey on display produced fantastic results across both year groups (see SOCS for scores).

The Surrey Junior Rugby Festivals took place last Thursday (U8/U9) and Friday (U10/U11) at KCS Wimbledon. The U8 and the U10 sides had very successful afternoons only losing one game each out of six. The U13 rugby sevens side competed at the Feltonfleet Festival. The team improved throughout the day and gained valuable experience leading into the Nationals in a couple of weeks time.

The squash squad represented the school on Friday evening whilst hosting CLFS. With two age group draws and the U11s winning, Cranmore took the overall victory in a fantastic series of matches.

On Monday our netball club had a great joint training session with The Raleigh School. There was plenty of skill development on show with lots of smiles on faces.

Finally, we wish our skiing squad all the best as they head to Pila (taly), for British Inter-Schools Ski Championships. Good luck! *A reminder: The whole school event: London Irish vs Ealing Trailfinders, Saturday 27th April.

For any questions: londonirish@cranmoreprep.co.uk *

Easter Camps: 

Harlequins Rugby Community Camp, Cranmore - 2nd to 4th April

https://bookings.rugbycamps.co.uk/index.php?selectclub=quinsru&submit=SEARCH&action=search_camps 

Andrew Flintoff Cricket Academy, Cranmore - 8th to 10th April

https://www.activatecamps.co.uk/kids-summer-camps/#allcamps 

Surrey Football Coaching, Cranmore - 15th to 16th April

https://www.participant.co.uk/surreyfootballcoaching/participant/arrangement.aspx?id=270718 Events: 

Junior Sports Exhibition: Thursday 28th March (pm), Cranmore

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Rugby: London Irish vs Ealing, Madejski Stadium - Saturday 27th April (pm). Cranmore pupils to perform guard of honour pre-match. Children will attend free of charge and coaches will be provided from Cranmore to the Madejski Stadium

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Cranmore Golf Day: Sunday 9th June - DGC

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The Cranmore Canter: Cranmore School - Sunday 30th June (am)

Paul Hodgson Director of Sport

Netball Club with The Raleigh School

U8s at Surrey Rugby Junior Festival

U9 Hockey v Danes Hill

Please use the sports portal via the school website https:// www.cranmoreprepsports.co.uk/ and download the Cranmore sports app for up-to-date information.

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cranmoresport

Music News Spring Soiree Our annual showcase of senior music takes place on Thursday 21 March @ 7pm in the Auditorium featuring the following groups: 

Orchestra

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Wind Band

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Chamber and Training Strings

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Saxophone Group

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Clarinet Choir

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Flute Choir

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Recorder Ensemble

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Brass Group

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Senior Chamber Choir

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Jubilee Choir

Children participating in this event are asked to go home after school and return to the Music Department with their instruments and in their concert attire (uniform plus bow tie or hair bow) no later than 6.40pm. The concert will finish just after 8pm. All parents are warmly invited to join us.

Richard Harris, Director of Music

A super performance from this young musician during assembly of ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ by Grieg.

Bravo, Josh!

Drama On Wednesday 6th March, Form 2 performed a spectacular ‘Matilda, the musical’ to a very supportive audience of parents and pupils. They sang "Revolting Children", "Bruce" and "Naughty", whilst confidently narrating and performing the story of a girl who just wanted to learn.

World Book Day 2019 The whole school celebrated World Book Day on Friday 8 th by dressing up as a book character. An enormous amount of fun was had and the costumes were exceptionally creative.

Lower and Middle Prep classes were treated to a visit by a local author, Nicola Rowley. My favourite quote of the day was from one of the children, who said, “At home I write my own stories, so I can be an author!” I think many of the children felt inspired to become either authors or illustrators following Nicola’s talk. She discussed the inspiration behind her books and encouraged the children to never give up saying, “If you dream it, you can achieve it!”

Other activities took place throughout the school including competitions in the Senior Library, bookmark-making and sharing a book with other year groups in the Junior department.

Overall, our celebrations of World Book Day demonstrated the children’s incredible love of reading throughout the school!

Mrs Sian Watkinson, School Librarian